SCOTUS Update: A victory for gun ownership rights
Supreme Court Rules Felons May Sell, Transfer Guns Last year, I wrote of the case of Henderson vs. United States wherein a U.S. Border Patrol agent who, after being convicted of felony distribution of marijuana, was not allowed by a lower court to sell his collection of firearms to a third party. I mentioned that the United States Supreme Court agreed to address the issue. The question before the court was when an individual surrenders his firearms to police and is later convicted of a felony, what happens to the firearms? The weapons can’t go back to the felon because federal law prohibits felons from possessing firearms. Yet the felon still owns the weapons, which could have considerable financial, sentimental, or historical value. Therefore, many felons in this situation would like to sell or transfer ownership their firearms, rather than let the government indefinitely possess them. Does federal law give felons that right to transfer ownership of firearms? In an unanimous decisio